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The new church and friary were founded on the site of a hospital and small oratory dedicated to San Giobbe, to commemorate the visit of San Bernardino of Siena to preach there in 1443. Since 1428, the oratory had been occupied by the Observant branch of the Franciscan order, to which San Bernardino himself belonged. The saint’s tremendous popular appeal had brought him a huge audience in Venice. On his visit to the Veneto he had also predicted to Moro that he would one day be doge. San Bernardino was canonized in 1450, only six years after his death and twelve years before Moro’s election to the dogeship. In 1470 Moro persuaded the Senate to include him as one of the protectors of the Republic, joining Saints Theodore and Magno.33 The simple aisleless nave was begun around 1450 in a late Gothic style, with side chapels on one side only because the presence of the cloister precluded them on the other. The chancel, where Moro himself was buried, is far more ambitious fig. 72.
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